Dr. Kimberly Weaver is an astronomer with the Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD. She received her Ph.D. in Astronomy from the University of Maryland at College Park, MD, specializing in X-ray studies of active galactic nuclei. She also holds a position as adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD.

Weaver has authored over 60 papers in scientific journals and has worked with data from almost every X-ray astronomy satellite flown in the last 20 years.